2nd October 2020
Easy UCAT questions have obvious and popular answers: how to avoid falling into UCAT answer traps!
As you complete more and more practice UCAT exams you may start to notice the following UCAT trend: Easy UCAT questions have obvious and popular answers, whilst hard UCAT questions have unexpected and unpopular answers. It helps to think of UCAT questions as popularity contests. The answer to an easy question is the most popular choice. The answer to a difficult question is the least popula ...
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2nd October 2020
UCAT Tip: Educated Guessing
UCAT Tip: Educated Guessing in the UCAT When sitting the UCAT students may face a difficult question that they can’t quite get their head around or they are running out of time and still have some questions they haven’t answered yet. Some people choose to leave the UCAT question blank. This is a problem because there is very little time in the UCAT exam to return to previous U ...
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2nd October 2020
Preparation, Preparation, Preparation: The Key for UCAT Success
UCAT: a multiple guess or multiple choice test? You choose A university lecturer of mine, once made the comment prior to us all about to sit an exam, that he would cry if we didn’t answer every question because: ‘guys, it’s a multiple choice paper, so even a monkey could get one in every four questions right’. Although I’ve never personally seen a monkey sit th ...
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2nd October 2020
What should I do the day before the UCAT exam?
By this stage, you will have well and truly completed your UCAT preparation. The day before the UCAT test is all about getting yourself in the right state of mind for the UCAT exam so that you can remain as stress-free as possible and perform at your best when it counts. What should I do the day before the UCAT exam? -Make sure you know the location of your UCAT test centre ...
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2nd October 2020
UCAT test tactics and preparation part 5: Counting Problems in UCAT
Counting problems in UCAT: an essential summary. Your UCAT questions explained by the team at MedEntry as part of our new section UCAT test tactics and preparation. They may seem simple on paper, but counting problems contained within the UCAT exam can often cause much confusion among students. If you can understand the basic principles of counting problems and recognize when to apply th ...
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2nd October 2020
UCAT Test Tactics and Preparation part 4: Probability questions
Probability questions in the UCAT: you’re probably reading this sentence right now… Your UCAT questions explained by the team at MedEntry as part of our new section UCAT test tactics and preparation. We know what probability means, but what is its formal definition? Let’s use our everyday logic to define it. If there is no chance that an event will occur ...
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2nd October 2020
UCAT Test Tactics and Preparation part 3: UCAT questions involving percentages
What you need to know about percentage % questions before starting your UCAT preparation: Problems involving percent are common on the UCAT. The word percent means “divided by one hundred.” When you see the word “percent,” or the symbol %, remember it means 1/100. For example, 25 Percent ...
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2nd October 2020
UCAT Test Tactics and Preparation part 2: Process of Elimination in UCAT multi-choice
Process of Elimination or POE in UCAT: the best of a bad bunch. Comprehensive advice from the team at MedEntry UCAT preparation. Once you have established what the UCAT question is asking you need to act efficiently and narrow down your options to reach the correct answer. Using the Process of Elimination or POE method can greatly improve your chances of scoring highly on the UCAT becaus ...
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2nd October 2020
Is UCAT getting more competitive? Will UCAT 2021 be even harder?
The UCAT score required for a given percentile has gone up in 2020 compared to 2019. For example, last year a score of 2850 translated to 90th UCAT percentile whereas a score of 2920 was required for the same UCAT percentile ranking in 2020. This is in spite of a small drop in the total number of students sitting UCAT. There are many reasons which contributed to this increase. They include ...
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2nd October 2020
Re-sitting UCAT
HOW ARE UCAT RESULTS CALCULATED? Unfortunately Pearson Vue does not release the marking scheme that is used determine UCAT scores. There is some speculation as to the following: answering a question correctly that is not answered correctly by the majority of UCAT candidates will be weighted more heavily. And conversely, answering a question incorrectly that most UCAT candidates do answer ...
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